Pension Saving in a Gendered Lifecourse

Despite automatic enrolment in work-pension schemes, private saving for pensions in the UK is low with most people being relatively under-pensioned in later life and reliant on the state pension. There is also a clear gender gap in the way that pension saving happens, with women living longer and saving much less for old age than men.


In this incisive book, Hayley James seeks to challenge the hetero-patriarchal assumptions in pension systems. She demonstrates the ways in which pension saving...